Anti-theft device entraps brainless owner

OK, so I bought a disklock for my 900 Trident last week. Not used one
before.

You know what's coming.

Yep, I forget that I've put it on, and the bike lurches to a halt as I start
to move off from the office parking bay. OK, harmless enough, you might
think, just remove the disklock and carry on my way. That's when I
discover that the disklock has sliced clean through the speedo cable as it
comes out of the hub. Bollocks. Luckily it doesn't seem to have done any
other damage, though it did come up against the brake caliper.

I did also discover that the rear brake is binding. The bloody disk was
pretty much red hot when I got home, and the caliper too. Am I likely to
have done any damage? Will the brake fluid need changing if it's been
overheated?

<hangs head in embarrassed shame>

 

Yep. Anybody who's never done that simply hasn't done it yet, or a liar.

It's fucked; I'll give you a tenner for it.

Brake fluid is amazingly resistant to being cooked. You could change it
if you want, but it'll probably be ok.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
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I've done it. The only time I ever used a disc lock. After that, I gave
up on them.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

I've never used a disk lock, because I *know* I'd do it.

--
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the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

One just needs the long yellow plastic string that stretches up to the
ignition lock.

 

It was a chain through the rear wheel when I did it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog

And a brain. A brain would be handy.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Mine was a big fuckoff chain through the front wheel. And I set off with
a pillion on board. Came to a halt on full revolution of the wheel and
both of us fell off to the right.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
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<rummages>

 

Thus spake Hog () unto the assembled multitudes:

<also rummages>

No, can't find mine either.

So, what about my rear disc and caliper then? Will cooking them have done
any harm? What's the likely cause of binding? Seizing piston perhaps?

Ta.

 

It's not half as embarressing as popping a wheelie on my Z1000 MkII to an
admiring crowd of youngsters .... then whilst aloft realising the steering
was locked ........ bollox ....crunch ..... pain .... pride denting ...

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

I have been following all of the replies to this 'very honest' admission and
can offer a suggestion for any 'out of the ordinary' situation.We are all
creatures of habit and put our keys in the same place/pocket every time for
example, so if you need to remember something, like take the disclock off
first before driving away, put your keys somewhere different. Always the
jacket pocket? Make it the trouser pocket. Dive down the jacket pocket, no
keys, why? Ah yes. If I have to remember something before I go out I put the
keys in an odd place. 'Remember to take a bottle of cold water with me. Keys
in the fridge'!!!

Works, honest, especially if you out the keys somewhere really out of the
norm. 'In the lining of your crash hat'!! Ouch .... you will remember!!

Mike
ex Lambrettas and Matchless G9

 

I've not - yet - but I always keep an old plastic 35mm film cannister
on the lock when not in use and on the ignition when it is.

That is foolproof until some s*d nicks my film cannister...

Chris D

 

Unlikely. They're designed to be able to run bloody hot, and the amount
of heat that reaches the caliper and piston isn't as much as you would
think, a lot of it being radiated/conducted away.

More than likely. [1] If you have to strip it right down, you have to
replace the seals in any case. It's fairly common for a piston to stick
on enough to really heat the disc up and the seals will be ok, so if you
find that just cleaning the piston up and lubing it cures your problem
(but without removing the piston entirely), you can keep the old seals
in place.

[1] If it's a sliding caliper it might be sticky/worn pins/sliders.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
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Thus spake Champ () unto the assembled multitudes:

That's a good thought, and ironically, I normally do park my bike 'front
first' in my usual spot here at work. Yesterday I had to park elsewhere due
to resurfacing work, and for some reason parked 'back first'.

 

Thus spake Steve Parry () unto the assembled multitudes:

On my Trident the steering lock is part of the ignition switch, so it's
impossible to start the bike without unlocking the steering. I remember the
independent steering lock on my earlier bikes though.

 

Thus spake Grimly Curmudgeon () unto the assembled multitudes:

I feel sure that had I been riding in the dark, my rear disk would have
been glowing. I have a burn scar on my finger from testing it - *ouch* -
when I got home...

Forgot to mention also that I had a bloke frantically beeping me and
gesticulating when he saw the severed speedo cable hanging out of the
instrument console and behind the wheel. He presumably thought it was a
brake hose ;-)

Thanks for the advice. I'll check it out when I find some time.

 

! Wonderful!

 

I had that on a ShiteOldTransit. When I parked up in the dark and looked
back, the dull red glow of the disc could be clearly seen.

Aha, always wet your fingertip first.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
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Same on a Vauxhall Nova after an MOT, where they were so enthusiastic
with the brake test some muck inside was moved and jammed the piston.
It took a Stilson wrench to twist it out, but apart from a huge build-up
of muck the caliper and piston were in very good nick.